Saturday, May 21, 2011

The Nebula Awards ~ winners announced tonight!

The Nebula Award ~ is one of the premiere awards for Science Fiction & Fantasy. The writings from the previous year are nominated by peers within the genre - the members of the SFWA – (Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America.) So it’s a bit like the Academy Awards for speculative writing – including short stories, novelettes, novellas and several other categories. Here is the list of the novels nominated for 2010.

My vote for novel goes for Shades of Milk and Honey and it would be at the top of my list of books to read of those nominated. John’s vote or book that he would choose to read first is Blackout/All Clear. Isn’t interesting that the authors are mostly women!

Which have you read? Which do you want to read and/or which novel do you think will win?

7 comments:

As soon as I saw the list of nominees (a few weeks ago?), I immediately downloaded the "free sample" chapters of each title on Amazon. Most of them, anyway. I already had a copy of the Nemisin book purchased, but haven't read it yet...

all that to say, I haven't read any of them yet, but I will at least sample them all. Ah, I love my iPad + kindle app!

Not read any of these & at the moment have reached a TBR impasse, not sure I can clear it this year. Are you a fan of Mervyn Peake or Michael Moorcock, as there is a book called The Sunday Books which is written by Moorcock based on illustration by peake.

Peake was something of an artist, as well as the Author of Gormenghast a trilogy, more about here-http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gormenghast_(series).I was a massive Moorcock fan in my midteens voraciously devouring all his books I could find. Hadn't thought about him in years, till I saw he was behind a new Dr Who yarn, as has Neil Gaiman & now the book with Peake.